The final 4 of the Catan World Championship this year were Raúl Fernández from Spain, Hisatake Do from Japan, Petr Frajvald from Czech Republic, and William Cavaretta from the USA.
William Cavaretta (USA) won the final round and is the new Catan World Champion! Congratulations!
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The Catan® World Championship (CWC) arrives to Durango, CO September 23-25, 2016 to determine the best Catan player in the world. For over 10 years, Catan® players from around the world have gathered to compete every two years to determine who is the best of the best. Since 2008, the tournament has been held semi-annually and alternated between locations in Europe and the United States.
The CWC is drawing 60 players from 34 countries for this prestigious tournament and will be gathering in Colorado to find out which of them will be the 2016 Catan World Champion. …

Catan GmbH is proud to announce its new partnership with Catan Studio Inc. (Catan Studio), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Asmodee Group. Asmodee, a global game publishing and distribution company, has just acquired the popular English-language Catan license from Mayfair Games. Catan Studio, headed by former Mayfair CEO Pete Fenlon, was founded by Asmodee with the objective to fully focus on English-language Catan brand development in close cooperation with its licensor, Catan GmbH, and its key strategic partners, Kosmos and USM.
Catan Studio will build on Mayfair's successful promotion of English-language Catan games. …

Together with Klaus Teuber 1040 Catan fans played in the Catan - Big Game on the Spiel'15 game fair in Essen, Germany and cracked the so far world record of 922 players. Winner of this Catan - Big Game was Tim van den Bersselaar from the Netherlands. Congratulations and many thanks to all participants and supporters. …

2011 was my first year as a Catan GmbH staff member. In the same year, our Japanese licensee launched a rectangular Catan carrying case. I immediately fell in love with the idea of a carrying case. Hence, the carrying case became my first big project, and I eagerly started working.
Kosmos still had several (thousand) sets of game pieces from the old travel edition in stock, so it seemed reasonable to use these pieces for the Japanese carrying case. …

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Do you love Catan? How about playing with 1199 of your closest friends?!? Join us on July 31st at 7pm to play in The Big Game ™ where we will attempt to break our previous record of 922 people playing Catan simultaneously!!
This year’s Big Game is also a Charity Event supporting this year’s Gen Con Charity partner, The Julian Center. …

Pre-Registration for Gen Con ends this Sunday (June 14)! Time is running out to save $10 off of standard badge prices. If you have friends that are waiting to get their 2015 badges, please tell them that Pre-Registration ends this Sunday. Or better yet - if you're willing to volunteer 20 hours in the Mayfair Games demo booth or event room... …